Using red filter

Picture taken from my backyard of the sun with clouds. I used my Nikon D60 and a selfmade red filter. Picture cropped using CS4 without any further modification.

Evening sky above flanders

Startrail Abbey of Averbode

Startrail with the Abbey of Averbode in the front.  On the right corner you can recognize Orion and Sirius is the bright star on the mid right. Picture was taken with a Nikon D60 using 30 frames each 30s. Picture stacked with Startrail and modified using Photoshop CS4.

Small Moon

The Moon this evening in the west,

Supernova in M82

A few days ago astronomers observed a supernova in M82. M82 is a "nearby" galaxy and located within Ursa Major. The supernova, an exploding star, is currently as bright as magnitude 11 and could become more bright the next few days.

Happy New year 2014

A Happy New Year to all with a lot of astronomical highlights a splended solargraphs and many more!!!

Stormy weather

Last night the barometer showed a lowest of 983 hPa or mbar with lot of rain as the stormy wind was already gone.